thumbmarks

new technology never ceases to amaze me. as much as one try to keep up with the developments, it simply cannot be done. for example, a person will spend a whole day sorting through whatever new information is posted on the net. and each new information is linked to other information. that's one person for every other person keeping him/her up to date. ironically, he will never be up to date because of the bulk every other people send him.

even the fastest way of transferring information cannot fully provide one with everything. take our country, we are already trying to keep up with everything changing globally yet it will never be enough.

let's start some few years back. i remember that as a child, i wondered why people get their fingers dirty with ink whenever they sign something. i immitated putting thumbmarks on paper while i play "opisopisan". that was about 20 years ago and yet we still don't have a database of thumbmarks in the country. the NBI still refers to the Courts criminal history of people who apply for clearances. we still do the matching type which means one needs two fingerprints to compare.

fast track to the present. criminals have become more imaginative and technology is harder to keep up with. whenever i watch episodes of crime investigation series, i get carried away by the technology they use. at the back of my mind though, i know i will never be able to see them used in our country--- well not in the near future anyway. that' why i remind myself that these shows are only fictional. yet the way they present their investigations are so logical and the technology they use really makes sense. so i blame the government for not funding our technology well.

the article of the canadian child rescued through a plea on the net was really simple. yet if that were to happen in the country, can we rescue the victim?